From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT) Description of problem: when using the -f "force" option or the --remove-destination with the cp command, I am still prompted to confirm overwriting files. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. cp any directory or file with the -f or --remove-destination option 2. 3. Actual Results: I was still prompted to confirm overwriting any existing files Expected Results: I expected files to be overwritten without requiring confirmation Additional info: I want to be able to crontab several daily file copies without having to be at the system to confirm overwrites
By any chance, did you alias cp="cp -i"? That's the default setup for root, and will cause precisely this behavior.
Aliasing appears to have been the problem. Thanks for the quick feedback. Kevin Moore Engineering Manager The Durham Company
Ok, not a bug then.